Word: patriotic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...today's perfervid Washington atmosphere, the fears of a sellout because of Watergate seemed excessive and simplistic. Defense Secretary James Schlesinger tried to counter such alarmism by noting loyally that "the President would do nothing intentionally that would damage the national security. The President is a visceral, instinctive patriot." Besides, anything that even looked like a sellout would crush his chances for political survival. The conservatives, most of them Southerners who are expected to provide his major support in a Senate trial if the House votes to impeach him, are also the ones who are most skeptical of Soviet motives...
Merle Haggard has also played the embattled public patriot. To many Americans he is still most famous for his song Okie from Muskogee. It burst on the nation in 1969, when the hippies were beginning to lose their charm and hardhats and other members of the so-called silent majority were beginning to find more and more solace in the Nixon Administration...
...single sold 264,000 copies the first year, and the album of the same name 855,000. The song put Haggard into the millionaire class, which he did not mind. It also earned him a reputation as a spokesman for the right wing, which he did. Haggard is a patriot, all right, but his own kind: instinctive, apolitical. When George Wallace sent him a feeler asking him to campaign in the Alabama Governor's re-election campaign in 1970, Haggard refused...
Newspapers know that making heroes sells copy. Three weeks ago, for example, you could not find a major newspaper or news magazine which did not show the morose portrait of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn staring ominously from its front page. We were presented with a hero--the all-American Russian: a patriot, a defender of the free press, an anti-communist, an international celebrity. But in three weeks, Solzhenitsyn has disappeared from the media. I would not be surprised if Gulag Archipelago gets bad reviews...
...their self-styled civilizers, not least upon his beloved Ireland. As far as his abilities were concerned, Casement was the kind of man who in other times and circumstances might have been an explorer, poet, or U.N. Secretary-General. As it turned out, this proud and eventually demented Irish patriot was hanged in London at age 51 as a wartime traitor to the Britain that he condemned as an illegal occupying power...